On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 22:04:35 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Am 06.06.2014 22:24, schrieb Dicebot:
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 19:44:53 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
Battery usage is still a common problem. Everything has been
working
perfectly for years now.
Not really, case in point my Netbook Asus EEE PC 1215B, which
was sold
in Germany via Amazon with GNU/Linux support pre-installed.
After one year usage, the wireless card stopped working with
IPv4
routers, because Ubuntu devs decided to replace the
proprietary driver
in the LTS distribution, although the open source version was
still
work in progress.
LTS distribution
This is the problem. Don't use LTS releases for desktops and
your Linux
experience will be much more pleasant. It is natural but wrong
approach
simply because kernel and driver support is evolving so fast
that LTS
versions can never really catch up.
Bleeding edge distros have best h/w support, though that may
cost some
time wasted of system tinkering once in a while.
I got tired of tinkering. It must work out of the box,
otherwise I have better things to do with my life.
--
Paulo
I gave up on Ubuntu due to bugs, crashes and general instability
that started to appear around 9.10. I switched to Fedora 16 after
Ubuntu 12.04 still had not resolved all the stability issues, X
crashes every package upgrade etc. Fedora has never given me any
real problems...
I switched to Arch about 12 months ago because I wanted the
latest clang, gcc et. al. and didn't want to wait 3-4 months for
the next Fedora release. I've never looked back.
Arch is by far the most stable and up to date Linux I've ever
used.
